Re: Beagle 0.1.1

[Charlie Law <chaslaw gmail com>]

Has the Beagle wiki site been hijacked? I get a page about Banshee music file sharing.

On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 18:17:15 -0400
Jon Trowbridge <trow novell com> wrote:

> 
> I'm pleased to announce the release of Beagle 0.1.1.
> 
> This version contains fixes for a number of bugs and one major new feature:
> a new KMail backend written by the redoubtable D Bera.
> 
> 
> OUR MANY URLS
> -------------
> 
> To download the 0.1.1 tarball or learn more, visit the Beagle wiki at:
> http://www.beagle-project.org
> 
> Joe Gasiorek writes a Beagle newsletter.  You can read it at:
> http://www.beagle-project.org/Newsletter
> 
> The latest gossip is available at:
> http://www.planetbeagle.org
> 
> Nat Friedman made some cool movies that demonstrate Beagle in action:
> http://nat.org/demos
> 
> We still talk about Beagle on the dashboard-hackers mailing list:
> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dashboard-hackers
> 
> George Washington, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison (among others)
> were granted honorary French citizenship during the French Revolution.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_granted_honorary_French_citizenship_during_the_French_Revolution
> 
> 
> WHAT IS BEAGLE?
> ---------------
>  
> Beagle is a tool for indexing and searching your data.  Beagle is improving
> rapidly on many fronts, and should work well enough for everyday use.
>  
> The Beagle daemon transparently monitors your data and updates the index
> to reflect any changes.  On an inotify-enabled system, these updates happen
> more-or-less in real time.  So for example,
>  
> * Files are immediately indexed when they are created, are re-indexed
>   when they are modified, and are dropped from the index upon
>   deletion.
> * E-mails are indexed upon arrival.
> * IM conversations are indexed as you chat, a line at a time.
>  
> Beagle uses the Lucene indexing system from the prodigious Doug
> Cutting.
> 
> Best is a graphical tool for searching the index that the daemon creates.
> Best doesn't query the index directly; it passes the search terms to the
> daemon and the daemon sends any matches back to Best.  Best then renders the
> results and allows you to perform useful actions on the matching objects.
> 
> Indexing your data requires a fair amount of computing power, but the Beagle
> daemon tries to be as unobtrusive as possible.  It contains a scheduler that
> works to prioritize tasks and control CPU usage, based on whether or not
> you are actively using your workstation.
> 
> 
> DEPENDENCY HECK
> ---------------
> 
> Beagle has many dependencies, and thus can be difficult to compile.
> It requires:
> * Mono 1.1.7 or better, along with the full Mono stack
> * gtk-sharp 1.9.5 or better
> * Gecko-sharp 2.0
> * Gmime 2.1.16
> * Libexif 0.5.7 or better
> 
> For the best possible Beagle experience, you should also have:
> * Evolution-sharp 0.10.2
> * A *patched* wv 1.0.3 --- the patch is available from
>   http://users.avafan.com/~fredrik/beagle/wv-libole2-readonly.patch
> * An inotify 0.24-enabled kernel.  Inotify is in the mainline Linux
>   kernel as of 2.6.13.
> 
> 
> CHANGES SINCE 0.1.0
> -------------------
> 
> Daemon/Infrastructure:
> * Keep track of the number of tasks we've processed in a given run
>   through the scheulder and yield if we pass a threshold from the CPU
>   stuff.  (Joe)
> * Add a new task type which removes all items which match a certain
>   property.  (Joe)
> * Fixed leaking index file descriptors. (Daniel Drake)
> * Force the encoding of XmlSerializer to be UTF-8 since it defaults to
>   the current system encoding.  (Joe)
> 
> Backends:
> * Initial KMail support. (D Bera)
> * Fix an exception in the file system backend when trying to ignore
>   paths whose parent wasn't also being watched.  (Lukas Lipka, Joe)
> * Correctly handle removed items in the Evolution Data Server backend.
>   (Joe)
> * Use a new URI scheme that is compatible with Evolution 2.4, so that
>   calendar items and contacts can be opened in Evo.  (Joe, Lukas)
> * Fix an exception in the Gaim backend when not using inotify.  (Joe)
> * Rename the IMLog backend to GaimLog. (Lukas)
> * Better handling of directories with exotic permissions in the file
>   system backend. (Jon Trowbridge)
> 
> Filters:
> * Add a bunch of special text mime types found in shared-mime-info for
>   the plain text filter.  (Joe)
> * Support OOo Draw files in OpenOffice filter. (David Richards)
> 
> UI/Tools:
> * Fix an exception that would show up if you used beagle-index-url when
>   the IndexingService backend wasn't enabled.  (Joe)
> * Allow best to start beagled on amd64. (Jack Miller)
> 
> Translations:
> * Updated Bulgarian translation. (Alexander Shopov)
> * Updated Chinese translation. (fwang)
> * Updated Dutch translation. (Wouter Bolsterlee)
> * Updated German translation. (Hendrik Brandt)
> * Updated Japanese translation. (Takeshi AIHANA)
> * Updated Vietnamese translation. (clyties)
> 
> Everything Else:
> * Build the Evolution Data Server backend into its own assembly and
>   install it into the system backend directory, allowing distributors to
>   package and ship it separately from the main Beagle package.  (Joe)
> 
> 
> KNOWN ISSUES
> ------------
> 
> The file system is now much more robust than ever before.  However, there
> are still race conditions that can occur with certain combinations of
> file system operations.  In some cases it might be necessary to stop and
> restart the daemon.
> 
> Extreme spikes in memory usage have been observed in some cases.  Certain
> extremely large documents (particularly large HTML files) can temporarily
> degrade your system's performance while they are being indexed.  In most cases
> of these cases, the memory is reclaimed by the system relatively quickly after
> the document is indexed.  There are other still-unexplained cases of excessive
> memory use, in particular on SMP systems.
> 
> At this point in development, we cannot commit to stable APIs or file formats.
> You will almost certainly need to delete your indexes and start again at some
> point in the future.
> 
> 
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